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Thriving American Cities

From Richmond, California, to Providence, Rhode Island, many cities across the nation continue to face significant economic challenges. These cities – and the people who live there – are essential to the nation’s economic future. With the right leaders, collaborating partners, new solutions and bold actions, these places and their people can achieve economic turnarounds and prosper.

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Planning & Implementation

We partner with elected local leaders in economically challenged communities to develop and implement recovery strategies.

Peer Learning

We facilitate opportunities for local leaders to connect and share insight, experience, and challenges with their peers in other cities.

Knowledge

We conduct research to provide local leaders and state and federal policymakers with information they need to adopt policies that foster economic revitalization in economically challenged cities.

Success Story

A Cross-Cutting Approach in Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights, Ohio is an inner ring suburb of 45,000 residents that has lost nearly 10% of its population since 2000. Working with the city manager, the Network provided advice on how the city could best facilitate redevelopment of a failing, privately-owned, 65-acre mall, practical support for better using technology and data to drive code enforcement, and a strategy for the launch of a partnership with a community development corporation to drive neighborhood revitalization.

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For #BlackHistoryMonth2021 we'll spotlight year-round efforts to preserve black communities' architectural assets. 1st up: @PetersburgV's USO Beaux-Twenty Club being restored as a resiliency hub for the neighborhood: by Radiah Shabazz for @SustainableComm

Preserving Black History in Petersburg, VA - Institute for Sustainable Communities

USO Beaux-Twenty Club Poised for Designation on National Register of Historic Places The Heights Community in Petersburg, Virginia is a historically B...

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More highlights of Black communities' property assets for #BlackHistoryMonth2021: plans to widen US Highway 41 in @ChasCountyGov must mitigate impacts on long-established African American neighborhoods and settlement communities. op ed via @postandcourier

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Editorial: Saving settlement communities is about more than blocking one road project

When Charleston County Council members take up the widening of S.C. Highway 41 in Mount Pleasant, they should soundly reject the widely criticized pla...

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The new #Kingsport, Tennessee City Hall is nearing completion. A renovated former Regions Bank building, the facility will consolidate city offices currently operating at 6 separate addresses: by @KaylynKluck for @WJHL11

New Kingsport city hall almost complete, April move-in expected for city employees

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL)- Kingsport’s new city hall, a project over two years in the making, is nearly complete following construction delays due...

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More highlights of Black communities' property assets for #BlackHistoryMonth2021: plans to widen US Highway 41 in @ChasCountyGov must mitigate impacts on long-established African American neighborhoods and settlement communities. op ed via @postandcourier

settlement communities in mount pleasant (copy)

Editorial: Saving settlement communities is about more than blocking one road project

When Charleston County Council members take up the widening of S.C. Highway 41 in Mount Pleasant, they should soundly reject the widely criticized pla...

www.postandcourier.com

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